The Adventures of Jennifer Crews

Hello Friends,
As Loretta and I made the trek from Oroville, Wa to Lewiston, Id we could tell that this week was at least staring out on a good note. We were staying at the Red Lion hotel which Loretta kept telling me was a really nice hotel and we were on our way to go have pizza with our Contact Stephanie and her family. As we drove we saw some interesting things like a sign that said "Bighorn sheep crossing".

Whaaaaaat? Loretta also told me that as she was driving there earlier in the week (I was in Florida remember) she saw a Sasquatch statue thing to take a picture by. We kept looking for him but I guess he was nestled up in his little cave.

We did stop at the Coulee Dam which is the biggest Dam in the U. S. Although we didn't just stop there, we may have gone out in "JeLo" (thats our team name) style and "JeLoed" infront of it and planked. Yep. I never realized how dangerous planking can be, it took us a few tries hahaha! We also stopped and got some Huckleberry Italian Sodas which were ok. I've never been brave enough to try an Italian soda. I always go for a water or a sweet tea but this year is all about adventure right?!?! Plus it was Huckleberry Flavor so I figured it couldn't be too bad. As we drove we caught a glimmer of snow on the mountains. In Lynchburg it doesn't even look like snow until about mid December so this kind of blew my mind because I thought it was so early.

When we arrived at our hotel I was sooo excited! I had another room with TWO double beds which when you push them together you get one AWESOME GIANT BED! This also left me with lots of room to dance. :)
I like to dance.

Stephanie provided us yummy meals all week!

As we got settled in our rooms, we got ready for Pizza with our contact. We went to this local pizza place which was really fun. I love the local places. Our contact ordered us all two pizzas one with everything and one with sauerkraut. I know what your thinking, I thought it too. Sounds gross! Well I don't think I had ever tried sauerkraut so I can't really say that I don't like it, it just sounded weird at the time. SOoo like I said before, this year is full of adventures I could at least try.I did.I actually liked it! Maybe it was a combination of that and all the ranch I was dipping it in but it was pretty good. Now this isn't one of those pizzas you can wake up in the morning and eat it again but at  that moment in time with my diet coke in hand, it tasted pretty good, different but good.

Red Lion Elevator

Moving on, that week the kids we had were sooo cool! They were a bit young but they did a really great job at memorizing and having fun which was sooo refreshing! The kid that played King Arthur even reminded Loretta and I of our friend Kepler back at the home office. haha! We also had four Assistant Directors which made my job a little easier that week since I was Directing. Woot woot! I absolutely loved working with these kids. They had such a desire to learn and to keep improving their characters which for me is a lot of fun.

Loretta and I also got to do a few workshops that week too. Ever since we left for Fall Tour every school has wanted us to do the assembly workshop which we do once and its for up to 600 kids. Its Nuts! So it was nice to go back to the basic ones and connect with some of the kids who weren't in the show better.

One thing that kind of stunk was we couldn't get into the performance space until the day of the show and we couldn't do costumes until then either. Talk about panic. Thankfully our contact was so sweet and had others come in and help us get everything ready just in the nick of time. Everyone was so helpful!

The shows were great that weekend and since we were done on Saturday at 2pm we decided to head to Loretta's after the show. We however did not expect to wak up and see snow everywhere! No worries, Loretta drove really slow and we got there safely. That night Loretta, some of her friends and I went to this show called "Harvey" in Coeur d' Alene and it was pretty fun. I had to go get some sleep though, the next day I had a pretty big adventure planned for Thanksgiving.
-Jen